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In 1994, at age 18, Deeley became a full-time fashion model.

She left full-time modelling in 1997, following changes in her contract with Storm.

She moved on to become an MTV UK presenter, usually with her close friend Edith Bowman.

From 1998 until 2002, she was co-host with Ant & Dec on the Saturday morning children's programme SMTV Live and hosted its spin-off programmes CD: UK ( 1998 – 2005 ) and CD: UK Hotshots.

On SM: TV Live, she often acted as an apparently slightly unwilling assistant whenever the show featured a guest appearance by a magician.

During her time with the show, she regularly found herself appearing and disappearing, and being crushed, stretched, levitated, impaled and guillotined.

However, by far the most common illusion was for her to be sawed in half, an illusion she participated in several times in its various forms.

In one performance of this illusion, she became the first British celebrity to participate in the Clearly Impossible version of the illusion, where she was divided in two inside a clear-sided box that allowed her entire body to be seen at all times during the sawing-through and separation.

In 2001, she won a Children's BAFTA award and appeared in an episode of the BBC's Happiness.

In 2002, Deeley appeared in a television advert for Marks and Spencer.

Other programmes she hosted include The Record of the Year, Fame Academy, The 2004 BRIT Awards and Stars in Their Eyes, as well as a weekly broadcast on London's Capital FM and BBC Choice series Roadtripping, both with former MTV colleague Edith Bowman.

In 2005 she played herself in an episode of Little Britain and provided the voice of " Loretta Geargrinder " in the UK version of the film Robots, replacing Natasha Lyonne.